2024 WordPress continues to be superior to other content management systems (CMSs) due to its adaptability, user-friendliness, and huge plugin library. Because it is an open-source platform, it is regularly updated and developed by a community of developers from all over the world as they work together. This is why WordPress is able to maintain its position at the forefront of web development trends and technological advancements.

Can you create a professional Website or Blog yourself?

Probably not BUT you will be able to Edit it Yourself and keep it Updated. We will train you to do this!

1. WordPress is the best SEO

WordPress Focuses on User Experience.

WordPress’s themes and plugins work together to make websites professional, user-friendly, and attractive.

The result?

Visitors enjoy the experience they get on a WordPress site.

They stay longer, decreasing your overall site bounce rate.

If you’re looking to improve your site’s SEO ranking, this is excellent news for you. Google wants to reward websites that provide a great user experience.

2. Optimizing Images for SEO Is Simple on WordPress

Images are essential to your blog posts. One or two of them, used in a timely way, breaks up your blog into interesting, readable sections.

But images don’t only lead readers into the heart of your text.

They’re also powerful tools for SEO, especially when you use WordPress.

WordPress allows you to “create alternative text” for each image you use. This means you can plug in your keywords as image descriptions that’ll be noticed by search engine crawlers.

3. WordPress Is Optimized for Mobile Users

Mobile usage has grown rapidly in the past few years

The great news is if you’re already using WordPress to power your site, you don’t need to do anything extra to make your website accessible on mobile devices.

Why? Most WordPress themes are already optimized for mobile users.

4. WordPress Helps You Integrate Your Campaign with Social Media

Social media is gigantic today, and it’s one of the best platforms for marketing your brand.

What’s more, success in your social media campaign will indirectly improve your SEO ranking.

On WordPress, you can create customized social media buttons for your blog so it’s easier for readers to share your content.

You can add a social media feed to your site.

5. WordPress Has Awesome Plugins Made Specifically for SEO

When you use WordPress, optimizing for higher ranking becomes simple. All you need is to install the right free plugins.

Thanks for your wisdom Julia McCoy

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I’ve been a web designer for 19 years and switched to using ONLY WordPress about 15 years ago. Initially, WordPress was created so that websites were ‘Responsive’ meaning they were viewable on all devices. The other really important reason it’s very easy to teach my clients how to do what they need to be done; add text, images, new pages, new posts etc. This gives you the ability to manage your own website and not have to call me every time you need something done!

Alex Moss Interview:

Q. For someone who’s is hesitating whether to use WordPress to create a Website or Blog – what are your words of wisdom? How can users benefit from building their sites in WordPress?

A. Do it, you’ll soon find that it can do pretty much anything you need and not just act as a blogging platform.

Q. What exactly makes you gravitate towards WordPress?

A.  Ease of use, and also the fact that a lot of people who are hardly web enthusiasts have heard of WordPress. It’s easy to train people how to use it.

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Squarespace and Wix, both of which advertise heavily to small business, have 0.9 and 0.5 percent share among CMS-users respectively.

While creating a professional website requires skills that the average person doesn’t have, ANYONE can edit and maintain a WordPress website.

Fortunately, there’s a publishing platform available with the right balance of functionality, flexibility, cost, and support to match any other available solutions. That platform, of course, is WordPress!

In this post, we will look at six reasons why WordPress should be the go-to publishing choice for your website, but first of all, let’s look at exactly what WordPress is, along with a little back history.

What is WordPress?
WordPress was first launched in 2003 by two developers who wanted a better solution for publishing their blog content (Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little). 13 years later, WordPress has now grown to power over 30% of the internet – with high-profile users such as TechCrunch, the Washington Post, and BBC America, to name a few.

Its humble beginnings solely as a blogging platform are still present, but constant development has meant WordPress has evolved into a full-featured Content Management System (CMS).

Sooo WHY should you use WordPress?

1. WordPress Is Open-Source and Free Forever

You may have heard the term ‘open-source software’ bandied around, but might not know what it means. Quite simply, open-source means anybody can contribute to the software in question, and is why it’s FREE!

2. There’s No Coding Required to edit WordPress!

There are a multitude of ways in which WordPress’ design makes it easy to add pages and content. This gives WordPress the functionality of software like Microsoft Word or Google Docs, meaning styling your text with bold & alignment, for example, can be done directly within the editor.

3. Lots of Themes (Layouts) to Choose

WordPress includes several default themes designed to show off its core functionality. While these themes perform admirably, there are 1000’s of other themes to choose from, all completely free, within the WordPress Theme Directory.

Because they’re free, you’ll find that the quality of themes varies. However, the Theme Directory includes a five-star rating system, awarded by users, to help you make an informed choice. Some of the free Themes also have upgrades with more functionality you can add if needed.

There are also some developers who offer premium themes, i.e. ones with a cost attached. Normally $60 is the most you’ll pay – and just one time. These Themes are generally more committed development program with dedicated support. ThemeForest is by far the best site for purchasing premium Themes.

4. E-Commerce Is Easy With WordPress

Unlike a hand-coded website, setting up an e-commerce solution on your WordPress website is easy when using one of a number of available plugins.

One such example is WooCommerce – the most popular e-commerce solution available. Its strengths lie in how fast it is to set up a store and its support from all major payment providers.

5. All WordPress Websites are Mobile-Friendly

Google recently updated Search Engine Rules and will rank sites based on their whether or not their website is mobile-friendly first. The goal is to “help our users find even more pages that are relevant and mobile-friendly”.

6. Google likes WordPress!

If you want your website to list high in search engine rankings you should use anything Google likes. The coding for WordPress is very clean and suits Google’s criteria.

WordPress also comes with free SEO (search engine optimization) Plugins that make it even easier to assure you reach your market.

Conclusion
Choosing a publishing platform for your website can be tough and choosing the wrong one means wasting time and money later, when migrating to a more suitable solution. WordPress should be your first choice for publishing your website. In this post we looked at some of the reasons why. Let’s recap:

• WordPress will be free forever.
• Using WordPress is as easy to edit as using your favorite Word Processor.
• There are many free themes and very feature rich premium themes such as the Avada Theme (one of my favorites).
• WordPress can be extended with plugins to provide extra functionality.
• Selling products is easy, with several e-commerce solutions available to get started instantly.
• Google likes WordPress.

Thanks for your Wisdom Tom Rankin!

This gal has a voice that is so pure; calming and inspirational – I truly enjoyed making this website for her. Elamuse.com

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